Educated Christians should already know about this sort of stuff, like the chi-rho Christogram, one would have thought? Anyway, no big deal.

agonist
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2013-12-20T01:41:05Z —
#7

Christians are just ordinary folk. Not everyone knows everything.

fuzzyfungus
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2013-12-20T01:44:42Z —
#8

agonist:

Christians are just ordinary folk. Not everyone knows everything.

The thing that tends to inspire a certain...visceral distaste... for christians ignorant of this particular bit of trivia is the (nontrival, and really loud) segment of christians who don't know about it and freak out about the atheist, liberal, secular, plot to 'take the Christ out of Christmas!!!!' or 'Censor Jeus!!!' by using "Xmas" as an abbreviation.

fuzzyfungus
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2013-12-20T01:46:42Z —
#9

agonist:

he's flashing a sign that is his name in Greek.

Jesus had better hope that Megyn Kelly is right about him being a white guy; because he is clearly flashing a gang sign in that icon. If she isn't, it's a tasing and overworked-public-defender-fun-time...

The loudest Christians are the ones with the least to say that's worth hearing.

MyopicHumanist
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2013-12-20T02:59:34Z —
#12

The loudest anyones are not worth listening to unless they're singing.

unclemike
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2013-12-20T03:12:58Z —
#13

Looks more like "The Shocker."

Artor
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2013-12-20T03:13:09Z —
#14

No, but often these same Xians are professing to know how other people should live their lives, and claiming that Xianity is the only way to be a good person...while displaying gross ignorance of the same Xianity they are trying to force on others. I've found that I often know more about Xianity, it's history, and what's in the Bible than the Bible-thumpers I come across.

MTHead
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2013-12-20T03:14:21Z —
#15

And sometimes not even then. You ever do karaoke?

websta
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2013-12-20T03:18:20Z —
#16

Agree with most of the comments above, and would only add that the use of "X" instead of writing out "Christ" wasn't merely for convenience, but rather to avoid using "His name in vain," and thus to keep it sacred/holy/etc.